Emberly

What Emberly means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Emberly yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,758 in 2015, #688 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Emberly?

US: Rising: up from #1758 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2018, when 595 girls got the name (#526 that year). First in the US records in 1980.

How common

• About 1 in 3,911 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 63,320 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WV (1.58 per 1,000 girls), IA (1.02 per 1,000 girls), AR (0.76 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Emberly is #688 in the US and #4867 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Emberly were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Emberlee134 US
• Amberly95 US
• Emberley21 US
• Amberley12 US · 4 E&W
• Emberli5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Emberly

Girls

• Leia#297Editor’s note Up from #420 in 2015 to #297 in 2025 in the US
• Wren#231Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #703 in 2015, #231 in 2025
• Emilia#45Variant of Emily, meaning “rival, emulator”^*
• Eleanor#12possibly “other”^*
• Freya#176“mistress, lady”^*
• Nova#46“new”^*

For a brother

• Jasper#129Editor’s note Up from #214 in 2015 to #129 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 610 US boys in the 2025 records
• Arlo#148Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #15 vs #148 in 2025
• Barrett#171Editor’s note 2,138 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales
• Adriel#84“flock of God”^*
• Leo#19“lion”^*
• Matias#170From Biblical Hebrew, meaning “gift of Yahweh”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Emberly’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.